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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5260343" data-attributes="member: 59506">Nah, just not seeing it. I have been very openly critical of WotC and expressed my opinions quite strongly in a lot of posts and threads, and I have never been reprimanded for anything I've said about them...not once, heavy-handed or otherwise. I've also never seen anything of ENWorld itself (specifically policies, moderation, etc.) that's either pro- or anti-WotC. And although not scientific, most polls here seem to show a pretty even split between pro-4E members and fans of earlier editions/other games. Perhaps for those who feel they've experienced this heavy-handedness, it was less about what they were saying, and more about how they were saying it?<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> ____________________________________________________________________________  As concerns the OP, it does sound like PayPal is a contributing factor. It hasn't been a problem for me, but it definitely appears to be so for quite a few people. As for me, I'll never give up my subscription. But, there are some recent changes to the site that have lowered my enjoyment of it somewhat. Most of them are things that have been talked about in Meta. Like the buttons disappearing from the top. (We were told it was temporary while some things were fixed or experimented with, but now it seems to have somehow become permanent - at least I haven't seen any communications about them coming back). <s>I know that I don't like having to go to my User Control Panel in order to do a search, especially as I always need to spend a few minutes searching for it when I want to use it now.</s> (<s>It used to be an easy little button right at the top of the page.</s> - correction: I see the search button is there, but some of the others aren't - I don't like having to go to the dropdown to find a forum) There are also display problems for some (having to scroll all the way to the left, etc.), that may also be contributing. Maybe some feel they don't want to pay for a site that is no longer quite as easy to use. Also, maybe bringing back sales of older edition pdf's...oh wait, that's that other online RPG subscription service...sorry.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> I do have to say though, I really dig some of the new features...like statuses, the XP system (and being able to give increased XP amounts as a subscriber), and of course the downloads. There's been a lot of nice work done on the site, but the site does still feel a little "under construction" yet (example: me and a few others having "Community Supporter" displayed twice...). Maybe that's discouraging some from getting or keeping a subscription.</blockquote>

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